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Herodias (died after 39 ce) was the wife of Herod Antipas, who was tetrarch (ruler of a minor principality in the Roman Empire) of Galilee, in northern Palestine, and Peraea, east of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea. She conspired to arrange the execution of John the Baptist. Her marriage to Herod Antipas (himself divorced), after her divorce ...
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Bernice. Herodias daughter of Aretas Herodias (forsook Philip to mary (Tetrarch of Galilee and Antipas, Matthew 14; Perea, 4 B.C. - A.D. 39, Mark 6:17) Mark 6:14-29; Luke 3:1; 13:31-35; 23:7-12; had John the baptist beheaded at the insistence of Herodias because John criticized her marriage)
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Sep 21, 2024 · Salome danced for Herod Antipas and, at Herodias’s direction, requested the beheading of John the Baptist. Later she married her great-uncle Philip the Tetrarch. Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Galilee &: Perea (r. 4 B.C.E.–39 C.E.), was Herodias’s uncle and second husband. After Salome’s dance and his rash promise, he executed John the Baptist.
Herodias (/ həˈroʊdiəs /; Greek: Ἡρῳδιάς, Hērōidiás; c. 15 BC – after AD 39) was a princess of the Herodian dynasty of Judaea during the time of the Roman Empire. [1] Christian writings connect her with the execution of John the Baptist. The daughter of Aristobulus IV and his wife Berenice, Herodias was a full sister to Herod ...
Herod ordered the strangulation of two of his sons, Aristobulus and Alexander, in c. 7 BC. Philip and Herodias were engaged to be married when Philip was 20 and Herodias was 8. They probably were married when Herodias was about 15, so when Antipas was in Rome with Herodias and Philip, Philip was in his early 50’s, Antipas was 46 and Herodias ...
Herodias first married her uncle, Herod II (also known as Herod Philip I), who was another son of Herod the Great. This marriage produced a daughter, Salome, who would later play a crucial role in the story of John the Baptist's execution. However, Herodias's marriage to Herod II did not last. She left him to marry another uncle, Herod Antipas ...
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Herodias. HERODIAS hĭ rō’ dĭ əs (̔Ηρῳδιάς, G2478). The woman who as the wife of Herod Antipas contrived the death of John the Baptist (Matt 14:3-12; Mark 6:17-29; Luke 3:19, 20). Herodias was the daughter of Aristobulus, son of Herod the Great (see Herod), the full sister of Herod, king of Chalcis, and of Agrippa I.
